Commonly referred to as IIRIRA 96 or Ira-Ira, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act passed by 11th hour compromise that deleted some of the most controversial measures. Mo...
In the most significant Immigration legislation since 1965, the Immigration Act of 1990 increased the level of legal immigration by about 40%. The number of visas issued rose from 54,000 to 140,000...
Commonly referred to as the 1986 Immigration Amnesty, the Immigration Reform and Control Act gave amnesty to over 3 million illegal aliens who could show that had been US residents since 1982. It a...
The US had long resisted compliance with international law governing the rights of refugees that finally resulted in the passage of the Refugee Act. A refugee is defined as anyone who has been "per...
The Immigration Act of 1965 finally abolished the quota system that had been in place since 1924 and the beginning of the national origins formula. The number of visas allowed annually for immigran...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on race, color and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. Outlawed segregation in employment,...
The relief act admitted 209,000 refugees, primarily from communist countries. It was designed to boost support abroad for America’s side in the Cold War with Soviet Russia and specifically defined ...
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 resulted from a debate in the US government over the direction that immigration legislation should go in. Many supported the traditional quotas, citing r...
As the Cold War begun, the McCarran Act was passed to, according to the language contained therein, “protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring reg...
Due to the increasingly perilous conditions for many in Europe, the years of WWII and immediately after witnessed a large increase in those hoping to gain entrance to the US. Due to the intense iso...
The Wall Street Crash in October 1929 created the worst depression in American history. On 9th March 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called a special session of Congress. Shortly after, Congr...
Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, the 1917 Immigration Law further restricted those allowed to immigrate to the US. The list of those excluded included "idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, alco...
California passed the first alien land law in 1913, prohibiting "aliens ineligible for citizenship" from owning or leading property, and over a dozen other states followed soon behind. Although no ...
The Federal Government assumed the task of inspecting, admitting, rejecting, and processing all immigrants seeking admission to the U.S. and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was est...
At the urging of Labor organizations like the Knights of Labor, this Act (along with others passed in ’87, ’88, and ’91) was passed to prohibit companies from importing labor under contract. Employ...
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